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JULY 47 
THE RURAL WEW"YORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. July 10, 1886. 
The Chicago Aldermen, Wednesday night, 
at 13.30, granted to the Philadelphia ex-con¬ 
vict and present millionaire, C. T. Yerkes. 
and his street rail way syndicate, the use of 
the La Salle Street tuunel under the Chicago 
River, for 830,000 a year, less the cost of light¬ 
ing and repairing it—about 810,000 a year. 
Votes: yeas, 23; nays, 11. All agree the 
( ‘privilege” is worth many times the price, 
and all agree that the consenting Aldermen 
must have been heavily bribed. In every 
large city in the Union, the Board of Alder¬ 
men is a nest of tricksters, rum-sellers, bribe¬ 
takers, black-mailers, and disreputable polit¬ 
ical petty hacks, with a few—very few- 
honorable exceptions. Why should this crude 
form of municipal government, which origin¬ 
ated in the Dark Ages, be permitted any lon¬ 
ger to disgrace and injure the cities of the 10th 
century i However suitable to old times and 
conditions, it is utterly unsuitable to these days. 
Every year enough gross aldennanic scandals 
become public in every large town and city in 
the Union to justify the abolition of this form 
of municipal misgovernraeut. 
The National debt has been reduced $96,000,- 
000 during the pa.se year—one-third more than 
in any former year. Isn’t the present genera¬ 
tion paying a trifle too much to leave the next 
free from debt contracted for the benefit of it 
and its successors, and which they, with larg¬ 
er resources, will be better aide to pay ! As 
we have spent so much blood and money, w r liy 
shouldn’t they spend some money for the safe¬ 
ty of the nation? .The 
“Mitchell ring” in Oregon in the late elections 
knifed Republican Judge Waldo (who sought 
re-election to the Supreme Court,) because his 
decisions in laud cases were against. Hippie- 
Mi tch el IV friends, the railroads and other land 
grabbers. .The River and Harbor 
bill has grown so large by log-rolling that it is 
thought certain the President will veto it. 
_Thursday the Senate passed a bill to es¬ 
tablish a forest, reservation on the head-waters 
of the Missouri River. It sets aside a large 
tract of the public domain in Montana for the 
preservation of the natural forests about the 
head-waters of the Missouri and Columbia 
Rivers and their tributaries, and makes it un¬ 
lawful for any person to enter the^ eservation 
for the object of cutting timber, settling or 
any other private purpose, except as a visitor. 
.Judge Love, of the U. S. Circuit 
Court at Keokuk. Ia.. has decided that where 
a person has invested money in a saloon when 
it was lawful to sell liquor, the property can¬ 
not. afterwards be taken from him or rendered 
useless without conlpensation on the passage 
of a Prohibition law. Judge Brewer, some 
time ago, rendered a similar decision iu Kan¬ 
sas, in the case of a brewery.In trying 
Anarchists and boycotters, it has been found 
mighty hard to get a jury in Chicago, Mil¬ 
waukee or New York. People seem afraid 
that either themselves or their business will 
be injured by the sympathizers with the ac¬ 
cused, should a verdict of guilty be returned. 
The prisoners’ friends are everywhere and 
always loud in their threats against judge, 
prosecuting officers and jury. Three Milwau¬ 
kee “ Raw Reds” have been convicted, how¬ 
ever, and two sets of “boycotters” have been 
convicted and sentenced in New York. The 
first set of six musicians, convicted of having 
extorted $1,000 “for the expenses of a boy¬ 
cott” which they had agreed to raise on secur¬ 
ing the above sum aud all their other demands, 
were imprisoned from one to two years and 
ten months each: the other lot of seven Bo¬ 
hemian bakers, ringleaders of boycotters who 
burst up a fellow-countrywoman’s bakers’ 
shop, were sentenced to from 10 to 30 (lays* 
imprisonment, A jury hasn’t yet been ob¬ 
tained for the Chicago Anarchists. There’s a 
stem resolution everywhere to put an end to 
ail illegal violence aud boycotting on the part 
of strikers.To July 1,1.755 miles of 
new railroad were laid in the U. S., and it is 
thought, from 5,000 to 6,000 miles will be laid 
during the year, which would be more than 
iu ’85 or ’84. Think of the new engines, curs, 
stations, settlements, townships, farms, etc., 
etc., implied by the construction Of every 
1,000 miles of new road!- Chicago’s pop¬ 
ulation, an indicated by the new directory, is 
750,000—50,000 more than a year ago. Hurry 
up your new directory, St. Louis!.The 
t-onuage over the New York State canals iu 
the last two months has been some 318,521 
tons greater than during the same period last 
year. This iucrease was mainly in wheat and 
iron ore, and is remarkable because it came 
during the labor disturbances.At Coulter- 
ville, HI., Monday, 70 picnickers were poison¬ 
ed by ice-cream. Pour dead already; others 
seriously sick.Nothing found out yet 
about that N. J. poisoning. A butcher ac¬ 
cused, but he seems able to prove that he could 
not have been the poisoner.The mixing 
building of the Atlantic Company’s dynamite 
works at McCainesville, N. J., blew up the 
other morning with terrific force, killing 10 
workmen and shattering the building. The 
bodies of the victims were blown into pieces 
so small that, no distinguishable remnants 
could be found —.. 
. .The workers in glass and iron at Pittsburg, 
Pa., (the two greatest industries of the city) 
aud their employers have had more trouble 
than has occurred iu any other line of business 
iu the country—coal mining excepted. They 
have just come to a probably permanently 
friendly understanding, however, and their 
example is expected to be followed by other 
quarreling parties. The glass-workers of this 
country and Canada, however, propose to 
stai’t six co-operative workshops on capital 
subscribed by workers—$30,000 are expected 
to be enough to start each shop. They intend 
to make all kinds of glass-ware, sell the goods 
at market rates and divide the profits among 
the stock-holders—mostly operatives. A large 
meeting of the trade is to be soon held in Can¬ 
ada to arrange matters.Siuce Postmas¬ 
ter-General Vilas discharged those railroad 
postal clerks for combining to strike, most of 
the others are on the “anxious seat :” 103 of 
them placed their resignations in the hands of 
the Executive Committee to be sent in in 
case of any more discharges, and now they 
are trying their best to get them back. That 
“Union” is likely to be short-lived.The 
largest Convention of Prohibition delegates 
ever assembled in Minn., met at St. Paul 
Wednesday, aud nominated a full Prohibition 
ticket—platform the usual Prohibition article. 
. .In the State Convention of the Iowa Demo¬ 
crats, held at DesMoines the other day, reso¬ 
lutions were adopted favoring local option, 
and for the enforcement of prohibition where 
it was so ordered. Should the sentiment of a 
community be the other way, a license sys¬ 
tem was favored, the minimum fee to be $500. 
...The Pennsylvania Republicans, iu 
convention assembled, pledged themselves the 
other day to give the people at next election 
an opportunity to vote on a prohibitory 
amendment, to the State Constitution. 
The Republicans of Ohio seem determined to 
force Congressional inquiry into the Payne 
bribery case. They say $250,000 were needed 
to secure the election of the Great Standard Oil 
Monopolist to the Senate. Of course, he knew 
nothing about it—but his friends are likely to 
have kuown something.Atlanta, 
Ga., has been a “dry” city since July 1; no 
liquor store open except a very few' whose li- 
cenes have not yet ran out: but no liquor must 
be sold iu smaller quantities than one quart.. 
Fitz John Porter has been restored to the 
rank of Colonel in the regular army; the same 
he held wffien cashiered in 1862. 
.... Chicago switchmen strikers still obdurate; 
but no longer violent. Railroads running and 
moving freight without them by the aid of 
“scabs” from other places.Academy of 
Music and Rocky Mountain News buildings 
at Denver, Colorado, cremated—loss $150,000. 
_The losses by fire in June, according to 
the New York Commercial Bulletin, aggre¬ 
gated nearly $10,000,000; while the average 
for many years past has been only 86,500,000. 
Numerous fires in all quarters on the Glorious 
Fourth, which was gloriously celebrated 
everywhere.The President has vetoed 
26 per cent, of the Senate bills that came to 
him, and only 8W per cent, of the House bills 
—a bill takes its name from the House in 
which it originated.The President 
has vetoed 90 pension bills and allowed 565 
more to become law w-ithout his signature, 
under the 10 days’ limit, as he had no time to 
examine them.The House Ways 
and Means Committee will report, against the 
Randall tariff bill.The acts forfeit¬ 
ing the lauds granted to the Atlantic and Paci¬ 
fic R. R., and to aid in the construction of a 
railroad and telegraph line from Missouri and 
Arkansas to the Pacific coast, aud restoring 
the same for settlement, are now laws. 
The total coinage of silver dollars <1 uring the 
fiscal year, ended June 30, was $29,838,905, 
against. $38,528,552 the preceding year. The 
coinage of subsidiary silver during the past 
fiscal year was $183,443 against $320,488 the 
previous year.. 
The K. of L. of Chicago have decided to ex¬ 
pel all Anarchists from their organization. As 
they will not generally work with non-mem¬ 
bers. this may be a serious thing for the An¬ 
archists. .The Knights are going heavily 
into politics this year, especially in the West. 
They will try their best to defeat the re- 
eleetiou of Governor Rusk, of Wisconsin, for 
his vigorous action in suppressing the strikes 
in Milwaukee. 
. .The Pension Office has issued 81,422 pen¬ 
sion certificates in the last 12 months, or 6,721 
in excess of the year before—aud this with a 
reduction Jn the forceof 100 clerks. In.Jmie, 
10,375 certificates were issued, or at the rate of 
399 per day. It looks as if the end of the war 
was yesterday, instead of 21 years ago. 
.The first application in this country of 
Pasteur’s rabbit virus for the prevention of 
hydrophobia took place Monday in this city 
at the Carnegie Laboratory, Dr, Valentine 
Mott operating. Harold Newall, seven years 
old, son of Dr, J. C. Newall, of Jersey City, was 
the patient: he was bitten June 24. by a pet 
dog, which, according to Drs. Newall and Mott, 
was surely afflicted with rabies. Dr. Newell 
signed a declaration taking upon himself all 
the responsibility.Of the fund 
raised for the families of the Chicago wound¬ 
ed policemen, $13,000 have been spent foi the 
cure of the wounded, which the city ought 
surely to have attended to. It is now pro¬ 
posed to give each widow $1,000 and each or¬ 
phan $200, and invest the remainder for the 
benefit of the families of two or three others 
who are likely to die.Still another 
Yankee fishing vessel has been seized by the 
Canadians, and those captured have been fined 
$400 apiece. The Dominion Government re¬ 
iterates that it has received no instructions 
from the Imperial Government, aud that it 
will make no modification iu its policy. Not 
so much talk now about war on our side; but 
a good deal of grumbling because our Govern¬ 
ment does not retaliate, as Congress has given 
it the power to do.The whole mackerel 
catch of the New England fleet this year is 
5,000 barrels, against 26,000 barrels last year. 
. .Three reports have been made ou the Pan- 
Electric scandal by the House Committee who 
investigated it. The smart Republicans got 
ahead of their slower Democratic fellow-Com- 
inittee-men, the four uniting in a report which 
vehemently blames Garland, Harris, Johnston, 
Atkins, etc., for accepting over $500,000 worth 
of stock apiece for using their influence to 
push the concern aud get the public to put 
money in its stock. Garland is especially 
blamed for bringing a suit in the name of the 
U. S., against an older rival, the Bell Tele¬ 
phone Co. The claims of the latter are sup¬ 
ported ; those of the Pan-Electric denounced. 
Four of the five Democrats on the Committee 
(the House being Democratic puts a Demo¬ 
cratic majority on all committees) canuotsee 
that Garland, etc., have been guilty of any 
“dishonorable dishonesty;” think the suit was 
brought justly, aud while not supporting the 
Pan-Electric, charge the Bell Telephone Co. 
with fraud in procuring its patent, and ex¬ 
tortion in working it. The ‘ ‘odd” Democrat 
agrees with his fellows in exculpating Gar¬ 
land, etc,, but not altogether in their views of 
the telephone controversy. 
The Granger roads are bitterly aud persist¬ 
ently cutting rates west of Chicago. Here are 
the old and new rates for the various classes 
during the past week between Chicago and 
St. Paul, aud the reduction to other con unit¬ 
ing points is proportionate: 
Class. 
1st. 
2d. 
3d. 
4th. 
4th. 
Old rare#_ 
.. 50c. 
35c. 
20c. 
15c. 
124$c. 
New rates.... 
.. 30 
20 
15 
124 $ 
id 
However low a rate a shipper can obtain from 
any road, the others will meet it. 
_Gen. Gordon’s nomination for Governor 
of Georgia is assured.Funds for the 
Paruellite election iu the United Kingdom ore 
being forwarded with marvelous generosity. 
The Rev, D. O’Reilly, of Detroit, Treasurer 
of the “American” Irish National League, sent 
over $100,000 within the 10 daysending July 
6, and as much more was probably sent by 
other collectors within the same time. 
... .The Senate has rejected the nomination of 
Solicitor-General Goode, who brought the 
suits against the Bell Telephone patent in the 
name of the Government . More thau 
$63,000,000 were invested in business enterpris¬ 
es in the Southern States during the post six 
months.Disastrous timber fires in 
M inn. , Iowa, Michigan and Vermont. 
... .The Broadway surface horse-car tracks in 
this city have finally passed under the control 
of the receiver appointed to manage the road. 
Jake Sharpe and the Philadelphia syndicate 
who have bought the Broadway and Seventh 
Avenue roads, pay weekly rent for the use of 
the tracks until the matter is finally decided 
by the courts. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, July 10, 1886. 
Gladstone and Home Rule are overwhelm¬ 
ingly defeated for the present. At midnight 
last night, the total number of Unlouists 
elected in the United Kingdom was 319, and 
of Gladstonians, 210. The Unionists had jiollod 
1,016,281 votes in all, aud the Gladstonians, 
949,592. At 4 P. M. yesterday, the Conserva¬ 
tives had elected 263 candidates; the Liberal- 
Unionists, 54; the Glodstonian-Liberals, 133; 
and the Parnellitos, 70: 141 more elections, 
chiefly in the counties, had yet to take place, 
or had not been heard from; but there is no 
possibility of reversing the present results of 
the election. At the last election, the counties 
went almost solidly for Gladstone; now the 
Conservatives are taking nearly all of them. 
Up to midnight, the Liberals—Gladstonians 
aud Unionists—had a majority of the Com¬ 
mons, and it is very likely they will hold it. 
Of the 141 elections to be heard from. 14 are 
certain for the Nationalists in Ireland. 
Of the remaining 127, the Conservaties must 
get 71 to give them an independent majority 
of 2, and it is not believed possible they can 
get that number. In last Parliament the Na¬ 
tionalists bad 86 seats; they are now certain of 
87, having gained a seat in Belfast, the head- 
center of Orangistn. To the last House, Ulster 
sent 17 Farnellit.es and 16 Conservatives; it 
now sends 18 Parnellites and 15 Unionists, and 
the Parnellites came within throe votes of 
carrying off an election in Londonderry. The 
Liberal Unionists who voted against Glad¬ 
stone iu the last House numbered 94; there 
are now but 54—and there won’t be over 60 at 
the most. The Conservatives have gained 
therefore from all branches of the Liberal 
party except the Parnellites. For a "working 
majority,” any party ought to have, say, 20 
majority. In no case can the Conservatives 
carry on the Government without, the aid of 
the Liberal-Unionists, under Harrington and 
Chamberlain. How long would these be likely 
to act with their old foes against: their old 
friends? Gladstone and the Parnellites are in 
no way cast down. The agitation for Home 
Rule is to be kept up. .Scotland, Wales aud 
Ireland have shown by their votes that they 
are strongly in favor of it. England must be 
educated up to the necessity for it, as well as 
to its justice and expediency. The result of 
the elections are so unsatisfactory from a 
party stand-point, that it is generally believed 
auother set must be held w’ithin 12 months.... 
..Russia has lately been massing troops 
heavily iu Bessarabia, the nearest of her pro¬ 
vinces to Turkey. Some of the Imperial 
Guard, whose presence at the front generally 
indicates war, liave arrived at the capital of 
the province. Batoum, iu Asia Minor, which 
was wrested from the Turks in 1878, during 
the late Turko-Russian war. was then declared 
a “free port” where all nations could land 
goods without paying duty, aud so trade ou 
the best terms with Persia and the other coun¬ 
try hack of it. The other day the Czar de¬ 
clared it no longer a free port. This is a blow 
at the treaty of Berlin, which closed the 
Turko-Russiau war. By means of lately built 
railroads and water transportation on the 
Caspian, Russian troops can be embarked at 
Batoum and arrive at Herat., Afghanistan, in 
14 days; whereas it would take British four 
t imes that period to get there, and Herat on 
the road to India, is likely to he the next 
scene of battle between Russia and England. 
It is generally supposed that Russia’s move¬ 
ments of late protend an early war, with 
Constantinople as the European objective 
point, while an army will be sent to India to 
rouse the natives against English rule, and so 
put England on the defensive at home, and 
prevent her from aiding Turkey. 
♦ • ■ ■ 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, July 10,1886. 
Nothing has been done this week with the 
Oleomargarine Bill, contrary to expressed ex¬ 
pectations of Congressmen. Congress is likely 
to adjourn July 20, though some say it cannot 
do so before the end of another week. The 
general impression is that the bill will be 
passed in some shape. If it isn’t passed in a 
satisfactory form, farmers ought to hold their 
Senators aud Representatives to a strict ac¬ 
countability ... .. 
A load of hay was being driven into the 
big barn of Schuyler Parish, of Naples, N. Y., 
the other day, when an iron bolt of the rack 
pressed so hard on a wheel, the tire struck fire 
and the hay was ignited. The driver had the 
presence of mind to back the load out of the 
burn and jump down. Then the frightened 
team ran through the village with the blazing 
load, setting tire to a 'bridge ou the way. 
When they were stopped all of the wagon had 
been burned but the front tvheels... 
. .The Central Kansas Live-Stock Association; 
at a meeting at Emporia, the other day, op¬ 
posed the Oleomargarine Bill, and requested 
the Senators from Kansas to use their influ¬ 
ence to defeat the measure. It also favored 
the manufacture aud sale of bogus butter. It 
has no interest in dairying, and thinks its cat¬ 
tle may be worth a trifle more per head, if 
their fat can lie converted into “butter.”. 
. ...The famous Hereford bull, “Lord Wilton,” 
which died recently, won over $100,000 in 
prizes during his life..........Dakota fines 
a farmer who fails to destroy Canada Thistles, 
cockles and other noxious weed on his laud. 
.Owing to the greater profit 
in cross-bred sheep for market, and the com¬ 
petition of coarser but cheaper Australian 
wools, German flock owners are abandoning 
the production of the finest wool, for which 
they were famous.The rise in 
Australian wools at the Londou sales is 
thought a great thing for the colonists, with 
many of whom even a rise of a cent or two a 
pound on their product makes all the differ¬ 
ence between solvency and ruin.It is 
now' thought the shortage iu our clip will uotbe 
less than 15,000,000 pounds .Agricultural 
Com. Column praises himself highly in his own 
St.Louis paper for ignoring the question of the 
proposed tariff on wool entirely. Column is 
a Democrat; the bulk of the party favor free 
